Re: design: was: Re: [RFC PATCH v2] printk: console: Allow each console to have its own loglevel

[Chris Down]

Chris Down writes:
> Ok, I will incorporate the EINVAL return for sysctl in a separate 
> patch first, and then add the new sysfs one to the existing changes 
> for v3. :-)

Thinking more about this, I will probably not change the existing kernel.printk 
semantics to return EINVAL, since it could silently(ish) cause regressions for 
existing misconfigured systems on boot. I'll just add the clamps to the new 
controls.